Fastening device for garments.



No. 884,246. y

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FASTENING DEVICE FOR GARMENTS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 21, 1907.

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PATBNTED APR. 7, 1908.

FRANK WEOKERLY, OF ST. DAVIDS, PENNSYLVANIA.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR GARMENTS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK WEcKERLY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of St. Davids, county of Delaware, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastening Devices for Garments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

, being disposed to slip into, and engage with,

the eye-member when pushed in and prevent its withdrawal by a motion in a reverse direction but permitting the disengagement of the members by pushing the eye-member in, farther, in the same direction.

Some specimens of my improved garment fastener are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a plan view of the hook or pin member and Fig. 2 a plan view of the eyemember of my improved garment fastener; Fig. 3 is afront view, Fig. 4 a side View and Fig. 5 arear view of the hook or pin member; Fig. 6 is a plan view showing the two members of my improved garment fastener in en agement with each other; Figs. 7 and 8 are pTan views of the two members, somewhat difierently formed from those shown in Figs. 1 and 2 respectively. The dotted lines in Fig. 7 show the two members of the form of my improved garment fastener, shown in Figs. 7 and 8, in engagement. Figs. 9, 10 and 11 illustrate the application of my improved garment fastener to a glove or garment button; Figs. 9 and 10 are plan views of the base, showing different formations of the hook or pin member; and Fig. 11 a bottom view of the top part of such a button, showing the eye-member of the garment fastener constructed according to my invention.

Referring to Fig. 1, the features designated a and a are the loops for affixing the hook or pin member of my improved fastener to the garment; the feature designated 5, is what may be termed the bridge or bar, and the feature 0 is the hook or pin. This last feature is composed of two oints situated apart from each other for a istance slightly less than the thickness of the shank d of the eye- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 21, 1907.

Patented April 7, 1908. Serial No. 374,947.

member shown in Fig. 2, to prevent accidental disengagement of the fastener when used for securing together comparatively loose parts of a garment.

In the modified form of my im roved arment fastener shown in Figs. 7 an(. 9, the l oops u and u are formed as shown in the drawings; the pin or hook p is formed upon the shank r and the bridge .9 is formed by curving the ortions t, the two bars of the shank. In l igs 9 only one loop a is formed and it is made circular to conform to the shape of the button.

In Fig. lOyet another modified construction of the hook or pin member is shown, in that there the member is composed of two parts, one forming the hook or pin feature 0 and the other the bridge I). The configuration of each of these two parts is shown in this Fig. 10, the part forming the bridge being shown underneath that forming the hook of pin feature. Both parts are held in proper position relatively to each other by being secured to the rim of the button.

The eye-member of the fastener consists of the eye proper, designated e in the drawing, the shank d and loops f and f, the latter serving for securing the eye-memberto the garment by stitching. The features of my improved garment fastener may be variously formed, as the conditions of its use may require, they may be produced of wire or stamped of sheet metal. In this case the feature I), the bridge, (see Fig. 10) may be dispensed with, the body of the button sewing to guide and hold the members of the fastener in their proper position relatively to each other.

The form shown in Figs. 9 and 11 is adapted for use as a glove or garment button, but may as Well be used upon garments without buttons, the circular loops (1 and f serving for sewing on the members to the garment the same as the loops at and a and f and f shown in-Figs. l to 8 both inclusive.

To engage the members of my improved garment fastener the eye-member is pushed in the direction indicated by an arrow in Fig.

2, into the hook or pin member; the eye 6 being set onto the bridge I). The push forces the eye underneath the hook or pin 0, the latter yielding, but as soon as the outer coil of the eye 6 has passed the points of the hook or pin 0 the latter slip in and the two members of the fastener are interlocked as shown in Fig. 6. It is thus clearly impossible to disengage them by any pull in Opposite direction and as the passage between the points of the hook or pin 0 is narrower than the thickness of shank d the fastener cannot be disen aged by any such push. as may be accidenta ly imparted to either part. The downward turn of the hook or pin 0 also prevents accidental disengaging of the fastener by tipping the parts. The only possible way of again disengaging the arts of my improved garment fastener is y pushin the eyemember in, such a distance as wi 1 bring the points of the hook or pin 0 beyond the rear portion of the coil of eye e and then impartin to it a lifting motion, using the eye e as a fu crum or support, and the loops f and f as the lifting point. This motion forces the shank cl through the narrow space between the points of the hook or pin 0 and thereby the members will be separated. They cannot be separated any other way and therefore, if accidentally even a push be imparted to either member, sufficient to bring the eye 0 beyond the points of the hook or pin 0, the fastener will hold and the members return in engagement with each other, unless the lifting twist motion follows at the end of the push. That such combination of the two motions in such successive order is not likely to happen, need not be emphasized, and therefore it is clear that my improved fastener safely obviates all danger resulting from accidental disen agement of its members. It. will therefore be found equally useful for affixing to a garment joining together ends of ornaments, jewelry, securing the ends of collars and suspending of trinkets and the like.

I claim as my invention y 1. A hook member of a fastener, comprisin two resilient points and a loop forming a bridge located therebeneath, supporting the points on the bridge.

2. A hook member of a fastener, comprising two resilient points extending in one direction and a bridge .therebeneath extending in an opposite direction.

3. A hook or pin member of a fastener, comprising two resilient'points, a brid e located underneath and in the rear of the points, and means for affixing the hook or pin member in its place; substantially as herein shown and described.

4. A hook or pin member of a fastener, comprising two points, a loop forming a bridge supporting the points, and means for affixing the hook or pin member in its place, ubstantially as herein shown and described.

5. A garment fastener, comprising an eye member and a hook or pin member, the eye member comprising a shank, a loop or eye on the shank; and a hook or pin member consisting of two points, a bridge located underneath and in the rear of the points; and each member having a loop for affixing it to the garment; substantially as herein shown and described.

6. A button fastener, comprising two parts, one part containing two points and a brid e located therebeneath, the points and the bridge extending in opposite directions; the other part containing a shank, and a loop or eye set on the shank, and each part provided with means for aflixing it in place; substantially as herein shown and described.

FRANK WECKERLY.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL OYEATON, M. A. HELMKE.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 884,246, granted April 7, 1908, upon the application of Frank Weckerly, of St. Davids, Pennsylvania, for an improvement in Fastening Devices for Garments, errors appear in the printed specification requiring correction, as follows? In line 67, page 1, the abbreviation Figs. should read Fig; in line 77, same page, the word of should read or; in lines 91-92, same page, the word sewing, should read serving, and in line 57, page 2, the word ubstantially should read substantially; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oflice.

Signed and sealed this 28th day of April, A. D., 1908.

[SEAL] O. C. BILLINGS,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

